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New billboard won't help attain goals

Sentinel & Enterprise

Updated:
10/21/2013 06:31:27 AM EDT

Does the city need more police officers? Yes it does. Our city, like so many other cities, need to add staffing and services. Providing our citizens and businesses a safe, clean, affordable city should be the goal of every elected official. The only way that this is going to be achieved is by attracting new businesses and residents to our city. Our tax base is slowly shrinking, causing businesses and citizens to pay more in taxes each year. A billboard was recently put up to show the frustration of current staffing levels within our Police Department. Although I feel the need for more officers, I feel that this billboard will not help us attain our goal of attracting new businesses and citizens to our city. Fitchburg needs to learn to work together to solve the issues we have before us today. I urge the mayor and the police union to work behind closed doors to solve these issues. Our city needs to understand that all of our actions have an effect on how our city is viewed. I'm asking everyone to think of the impact they have on our city. We don't need to be tomorrow's headlines.

ANGELO BISOL

Fitchburg

President, Congress should pay for shutdown

With a $24 billion cost for a 16-day government shutdown, it should be both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate, and the president that should pay the cost, not the American taxpayer.

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How long are we Americans going to tolerate elected people who have no vision, who have no proper leadership ability, but just think they have the right to govern because they know how to fool the people, and also know that people won't respond. Remember, a government large enough to give things is large enough to take them away.

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